Australian Artists L-P
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# 34657
FRENCH, Alison
Seeing the centre. The art of Albert Namatjira 1902 – 1959
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2002. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 166, illustrated, spine slightly sunned, a very good copy.
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# 34634
McKENNA, Noel
End Street
Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 90, illustrated. New copy. Noel McKenna’s paintings do a lot with a little. The senior Australian artist’s suburban interiors, solitary male inhabitants, and the various domesticated animals that keep them company, fit adroitly into the wider motif of the poetics of the banal. But it’s via …
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# 34633
PETTIFER, Drew
Less than Lovers
Melbourne : M.33, 2014. Quarto, lettered wrappers, unpaginated, photographically illustrated. New copy. Following hot on the heels of his playfully provocative 2011 publication I keep mine hidden, Drew Pettifer presents a more languid, more moody and delicate collection of images in his latest book from M.33. Once again taking its name from a song title; this …
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# 34632
LOVETT, Dane
Flowers
Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the Melbourne-based artist’s debut book Flowers gesture towards the syntaxes of minimalism and seriality as …
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# 34628
MARLOW, Jesse
Jesse Marlow – Second City
Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …
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# 34636
LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)
Dream walls
Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, pp. 114, photographs and images by Bruno Leti. Printed in a small run of unnumbered copies. Signed by the artist. Images of Roman walls at Herculaneum and Pompeii taken by the artist with his painted responses.
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# 34621
[RUBY LINDSAY, 1887-1919]
The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)
London : Cecil Palmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram over papered boards (light scuff marks), gilt title, 51 pp, illustrated in black and white and colour. Bookplate to front pastedown of Molly Coen, sister of Margaret Coen (who designed the bookplate) and friend of the Lindsay family. A very good copy. This work, available only to subscribers, …
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# 34620
HETHERINGTON, John.
Norman Lindsay : the embattled Olympian.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. Octavo, cloth in dust jacket, 272 pp, illustrated; a very good copy.
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# 34617
MACKENZIE, Kenneth (1913-1955); LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Our earth
With an original etching and 13 illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1937. Quarto, quarter cloth over gilt-lettered textured boards (a few light marks, foxing to spine), 60 pp, tipped-in illustrations and vignettes by Lindsay, a few occasional spots of foxing, offsetting from newspaper article to one page, a very good copy. …
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# 34614
McKAY, Peter et al
Patricia Piccinini: Curious affection (deluxe edition)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2018. Quarto, illustrated boards, in a slipcase with ribbon drawer, pp. 202, illustrated. One of a small number of specially bound copies in slipcase. Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlingly life-like artworks surprise and enchant with their fantastic rendering of the near future — a world in which DNA editing is …
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# 34613
KING, Natalie (series editor)
Polixeni Papapetrou
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2019. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated in colour.
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# 34610
SOLOMON-GODEAU, Abigail
Rosemary Laing
Sydney : Piper Press, 2012. Oblong folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. New copy, mint condition, sealed in shrinkwrap. ‘Rosemary Laing presents a spectacular vision of Australia as both haunted by history and alive to the present. Her images appear suspended between fantasy and reality, and render the impossible possible.’ – the publisher
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# 34597
MACKENZIE, Andrew
Frederick McCubbin 1855-1917: ‘The Proff’ and his art.
Melbourne: Mannagum Press, 1990. Folio, boards with colour illustrated dustjacket, slip case, 354pp. This is a monograph containing significant biographical and historical information on McCubbin, his family and the models in his artworks. There are numerous colour illustrations of his work. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author.
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# 34481
BELL, Pamela
Margo Lewers : retrospective
Sydney : National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the SH Ervin Gallery.
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# 34536
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia. The Ned Kelly Paintings 1946 – 47. Sidney Nolan
Melbourne : George’s Art Gallery, 1963. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [4], catalogue of works. Very scarce exhibition catalogue from an early showing of the Kelly series.
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# 34537
PARR, Mike
Mike Parr : brain coral
Sydney : National Art School Gallery, 2012. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated.